The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

[RaymondR]

The Age has conformed it's left wing status by firing it's well known cartoonist of about fifty years. His crime was to upset the "I Love Dan" crowd with a cartoon critical of forced vaccinations.

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by GordMay

Early Monday, a leaked email from the WTA to its Players' Council, reported by the New York Times and Melbourne's The Age newspaper, suggested unvaccinated players would likely be granted a visa but must do two weeks in isolation in a quarantine hotel.
Fully vaccinated players would not have to undergo quarantine.
More ➥ https://au.sports.yahoo.com/tennis-2...222331173.html

After November 1st fully vaccinated people will be able to enter Australia without doing 14 days hotel quarantine.
As best I understand it - unvaccinated will still be able to enter but will have to do the 14 days in a stuffy hotel room with no view.
Then, having been let out, Djokovic would not be able to dine out with his chums, would not be able to go for a drink with his chums, sigh.

Spectators have to be fully vaxxed but players not? If allowed into Australia - a Federal decision - he could be stopped from entering the stadium - a State decision.

It will be interesting to watch what happens here.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

After November 1st fully vaccinated people will be able to enter Australia without doing 14 days hotel quarantine.

As best I understand it - unvaccinated will still be able to enter but will have to do the 14 days in a stuffy hotel room with no view.

Then, having been let out, Djokovic would not be able to dine out with his chums, would not be able to go for a drink with his chums, sigh.



Spectators have to be fully vaxxed but players not? If allowed into Australia - a Federal decision - he could be stopped from entering the stadium - a State decision.



It will be interesting to watch what happens here.

No one is forcing these ball-slapping turnips to come here. I don’t see why they should be treated any differently to other foreign visitors. They are less important to me than a backpacker from Europe, who at least beings something of value to the country, namely culture and civility.

Frankly, I’m sick of the sense of entitlement these sports brats bring in their hand bags.

[Uncle Bob]

Originally Posted by GILow

No one is forcing these ball-slapping turnips to come here. I don’t see why they should be treated any differently to other foreign visitors. They are less important to me than a backpacker from Europe, who at least beings something of value to the country, namely culture and civility.

Frankly, I’m sick of the sense of entitlement these sports brats bring in their hand bags.

Ahh yes, but at least they are designer handbags.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by RaymondR

The Age has conformed it's left wing status by firing it's well known cartoonist of about fifty years. His crime was to upset the "I Love Dan" crowd with a cartoon critical of forced vaccinations.

Here you go...
Especially for 'Ping as he is a Age reader and thus might have missed it.
FWIW, I always enjoy Leunig's drawings.

[El Pinguino]

Rather sad if that is the reason but I think he is still employed doing other stuff at The Age, cleaning the bogs or something.

Moving right along.

I think Dan may be pushing the boundaries of power a bit far and I reckon we may do a 'Full Churchill' on him at the next election.

[GordMay]

Michael Leunig was [probably] fired for his consistent anti-vax messaging, given the cartoonist has taken a swing at different jabs, since, at least, 2015.
He captioned the drawing “mandate,” comparing mass vaccination, and Covid vaccine resistance, to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Evidently, Leunig revealed that 12 of his other cartoons, also about vaccines and the Victorian government, had been censored by the paper, this year.

More, from a right-wing conservative publication ➥ https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/10...od-for-a-buck/

[pdjb]

There is no more freedom ?

[goboatingnow]

Originally Posted by pdjb

There is no more freedom ?

Have we run out or something. Was there loads before. Who wasted it. The scoundrels

[Lucky Luke 1]

What a turn around from last year when the Tennis players were mostly praised, as was Australia and Melbourne with its quarantine stance. Lets forget of cause the Aussies who couldn't get home and we flew in a heap of these brats and their entourage... If only the self entitled tennis players (and lets face it most of us don't give two chits about tennis) were more like the MotoGP paddock.

[El Pinguino]

So Dan sez he doesn't give a rat's about what the Feds do - they can give the Bosnian a visa but he won't be getting into Melbourne Park without being fully vaxxed.

So 'in yer jocks, TA!!'

[RaymondR]

The way Dan's behaving keeping people out of Victoria won't be a problem, keeping them in might be another thing however.

[El Pinguino]

According to bureau of stats - in 20/21 Vic's population fell by 40,000. Qland's pop increased by 40,000.

To paraphrase Piggy Muldoon - 'every time a Victorian moves to Queensland the average IQ of both states goes up'.

[Alan Mighty]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

According to bureau of stats - in 20/21 Vic's population fell by 40,000. Qland's pop increased by 40,000.

To paraphrase Piggy Muldoon - 'every time a Victorian moves to Queensland the average IQ of both states goes up'.

The big question is: to what electorates do the VICs move? Electorates in coal-mining areas of QLD might well decide the coming federal election.

[downunder]

Originally Posted by GordMay

Michael Leunig was [probably] fired for his consistent anti-vax messaging, given the cartoonist has taken a swing at different jabs, since, at least, 2015.
He captioned the drawing “mandate,” comparing mass vaccination, and Covid vaccine resistance, to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Evidently, Leunig revealed that 12 of his other cartoons, also about vaccines and the Victorian government, had been censored by the paper, this year.

More, from a right-wing conservative publication ➥ https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/10...od-for-a-buck/

I think it is more the issue that Chairman Dan is mandating CROVID jabs